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From: Dan Kois
To: Stefan Fatsis, Emma Carmichael
Oh, man, the Bears' fake-out in week three! That play damn near gave me a heart attack. I'm in full agreement with Aaron Rodgers, who declared it "the most incredible play I've ever seen," and even though I was cheering for the Packers—because, Stefan, my soul has not withered to a tiny nub due to years toiling in the sportswriting mines—I groaned in disappointment when the play was called back for a phantom hold. I imagine everyone did, other than bettors.
Watching the video, don't you wish that referee Mike Carey had apologized while calling the penalty? Or at least made note in his announcement how bad he felt that he was screwing up the play of the season. "During the amazing return: Holding, on the receiving team, number 21. I wish I didn't have to call it, because, Jesus, these guys just blew my mind." It would have at least made up for Joe Buck responding to the return by raising his voice precisely 0.001 dB, to demonstrate surprise and shock.
As for the Panthers' trick play, my favorite thing about it isn't Newton's pirouette, graceful as it was, or even the celebration—it's watching all the linemen who aren't the center as they stand listlessly at the line of scrimmage for a second-plus after the snap, deking the D-line into believing nothing has actually happened. What I love about both these plays is the extent to which they reward good acting, not just good timing and execution. The Bears return team had to pretend that the ball was headed straight toward Devin Hester. The Panthers' linemen needed to leave themselves defenseless, pretending they were all still listening to the play call and prepping their assignments.
And so both plays reward the viewer not just with the touchdown that results (or, in the Bears' case, would have resulted in a just universe), but with the wonderful moment when the light dawns upon the opposing players—when their sure-footed certainty, derived from thousands of hours of mindless repetition on the practice field, transforms into panic as the players, as one, realize something isn't right. It's more delicious during the Bears' punt return—Hester camps underneath a ball that isn't coming down, and waits, and waits, and then sort of sneaks a peek at the actual returner, and that's when the veil lifts for the Packers cover guys. They turn their heads so fast they'd strain their necks if their necks weren't as thick as tree trunks. I laugh out loud every time I watch the replay.
I wasn't previously familiar with that indelible moment in Little Giants, but it doesn't hold a candle to some of the all-time great movie gadget plays, like the "QB walks toward the sidelines while the center snaps to the halfback" (The Longest Yard remake) or the "ballcarrier shoots three defenders, self with handgun" (The Last Boy Scout). In the spirit of those scenes, here's hoping that next season, teams try out what looks to be the greatest trick play in cinematic history: a gadget I like to call the "Carpet Bombing," which appears in the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. It's a tough play to diagram, but it goes like this: Once your return man gets into the second level, you set off tremendous explosive charges, which create a huge crater in the middle of the field, sending 21 players plummeting to their deaths. Beat that, Mike Martz!
The Packers play the Bears again this weekend in the Christmas night game, a.k.a. the game America watches dozing on the couch while America's children scream at each other, hopped up on sweet rolls and wrapping-paper fumes. Presumably the Pack will be on the lookout for the Hester Switcheroo, and will circumvent it by craftily kicking to Hester.
That Packers-Bears tilt is the only game on Sunday this week, which makes for the weird sight of a packed Saturday schedule, a real relief to those of us whose Saturdays are usually spent wishing college football was over. Which makes me wonder: Why is there only football three to four days a week? On any given evening, I'd certainly choose even the lowest-wattage pro game—oh, look, there it is, Texans-Colts—over pretty much any network programming. Why must 90 percent of the games be concentrated on one day? Why couldn't we stagger the schedule, so every night offered an NFL game? Why is the league married to Sunday football?
Emma, what would you rather watch tonight: Who's Still Standing?, or Rams vs. Steelers? I know what I'll pick, even if Bane doesn't blow up Heinz Field.
Dan Kois is a senior editor at Slate and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.


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If it wasn't for the wonderful integration of The Simpsons world into the video game, The Simpsons Game wouldn't be worth much. The controls are really flawed and frequently make the gameplay irritating. They could have done much better in this department, needless to say. You get used to it, but the fact is the controls weren't implemented properly and the camera angles simply suck. You'll be walking in a straight line, and right when you're going to jump the camera will turn 180 and sometimes 360 degrees, leaving you completely helpless and frustrated - What?! Now I have to go and climb up there all over again?! The controls on the Wii are not much different than on its counterparts. You'll move the characters with the thumbstick, jump with A, attack with B, switch into Homerball with the minus button, etc. Just sometimes the Wii's motion-sensing controls will be put into practice; you'll be able to do ground-slams with the Homerball by quickly slashing the Wii-mote downwards. In other occasions, you'll do an upwards motion to launch the ball. Also, Lisa's saxophone will play when you shake the Wii-mote (to stun enemies), Bart will grapple into grappling points, and Marge will start using her megaphone.


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Lincolnton was established as the county seat of Lincoln County in 1785. It was laid out with a central courthouse surrounded by a grid with four primary streets—East Main, West Main, North Aspen and South Aspen, which divided the town into quadrants. Over time, development in Lincolnton filled the original grid plan, expanded it, and eventually moved beyond it while maintaining the four principal arteries like compass points.
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The South Aspen Street Historic District features homes from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
The West Main Street Historic District possesses the largest surviving collection of buildings erected in Lincolnton during the nineteenth century prior to the Civil War, which was a period when the town experienced great prosperity and influence. The buildings reflect the Federal and Greek revival styles of architecture. The district also contains houses from the first three decades of the twentieth century which include Victorian Colonial Revivals, Colonial Revivals, bungalow Craftsman style homes and period cottage style homes popular during those years.
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District heating describes a water-based heating system where there is a considerable distance between the place the heat is generated (power plant) and the place the heat is used (the building).
District heating has become more and more popular all over the world, and is found in the majority of larger cities.
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- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 2 1/4t cups finely ground graham crackers (from about 17 whole graham crackers)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
- 3 8-ounce packages Philadelphia-brand cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup purchased dulce de leche*
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup purchased dulce de leche
- 3 tablespoons (or more) heavy whipping cream
- Fleur de sel
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan with nonstick spray. Mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and cinnamon in medium bowl. Add melted butter; stir until coated. Transfer crumb mixture to pan. Press evenly onto bottom of pan. Bake until crust is light golden, about 10 minutes. Cool completely on rack.
Blend cream cheese and sugar in processor until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute, stopping occasionally to scrape down sides of bowl. Add eggs 1 at a time, processing 3 to 5 seconds to blend between additions. Add dulce de leche and vanilla; process until blended, about 10 seconds. Spread batter evenly over cooled crust. Bake until just set in center and edges are puffed and slightly cracked, about 38 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool completely.
Heat dulce de leche and 3 tablespoons cream in microwave-safe bowl in 10-second intervals until melted. Stir to blend, adding more cream by teaspoonfuls if too thick to pour (amount of cream needed will depend on brand of dulce de leche). Pour glaze over cooled cheesecake; spread evenly. Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour (glaze will not be firm). DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover; chill.
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elementrix wrote: »working with 100% nurbs:
Here is a wip on what im working on now.
Im using that brdf shader found somewhere on this forum (seems to be kickass). Still lots to do. The weapons, more texturework, hair and then riging.
I was going to use that Loomis book for learning to draw the figure. What's the problem with it?
ArtsyFartsy wrote: »you must really hate your life :poly142:
ship looks good though
Loomis is great for learning to draw, he makes a lot of good points and teaches very well.
However the "character sheets" are not really that useful for modelling from, the proportions are a tad strange and the pose is pretty boring.
The books are definitely good for learning to draw/paint/compose though. Just don't use them as be-all, end-all reference.
Nick Carver wrote: »I agree with MoP - Loomis' female proportions in particular are a bit weird(quite a 50s shape, I think). His head construction (in Drawing the Head and Hands) is still probably the best method out there, though. There are aspects in his figure drawing manual that are pretty useful, such as the page on 'landmarks' and the drawings of the figure broken up into planes, but you should definitely supplement it with lots of other sources.
I'd recommend Bridgman for construction and understanding basic forms, and someone like Glenn Vilppu or Karl Gnass for pose and gesture. Burne Hogarth's anatomy is quite misleading at times but his drawings are very sculptural and can help when trying to understand overall forms and insertion points. Kevin Chen's figure drawing tutorials over on Conceptart.org are a really useful (free) resource as well. Mix all of that together along with lots of studies of your own and you should start to get a grasp of the human figure. Modelling sheets will only get you so far as you need to be able to visualise and understand more than is just apparent from a couple of flat drawings at right angle to one another.
Marine, I actually think they're purpose is for digging in to the ground when its rollin'.
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One of the most intriguing features from yesterday's Nissan NV2500 Concept, aside from the origami-like folding doors everywhere and fold out steps aplenty, is the central workstation, featuring a striking and Jetsonesque laser keyboard. While not new, laser keyboards haven't had the market penetration their inventors hoped for yet and public awareness of the product like this one from Celluon makes it seem like a whiz-bang feature from a Buck Rogers future.
That fancy-pants keyboard folds away into a kiosk holding a mounted flatscreen monitor running a nondescript computer able to hook up to the internet via a 3G wireless connection. Great stuff for reviewing drawings and proposals, then selling angry emails at inept zoning and inspection officials. To make things more comfy, Nissan equipped this industrial workhorse with a layout that makes the normal jobsite office of piece of plywood over two sawhorses look like it came from the stone age. The swiveling seat does double duty as both passenger seat and super comfortable double-armed work chair, hey, it even swivels around to talk shop over the folding mini-conference table.
This brings us to a sad point. This panel van has a nicer work center than we do, and we work on computers all day. Aside from the silly and hard to use laser keyboard, this thing with its overhead skylight, the natural bamboo walls and floor, the nice airy environment when all the doors are open and that swank chair it all makes our blogging burrow seem pretty funky.


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CLEMSON, S.C. – Former Clemson golfer Ashlan Ramsey has been named a third-team All-American by Golfweek for the 2013-14 season. Ramsey was one of seven freshmen from around the nation selected to one of the three teams by the national golf publication.
Other freshmen named to the Golfweek teams were Alison Lee of UCLA (1st), Yu Liu of Duke (2nd), Laetitia Beck of Duke (2nd), Matilda Castren of Florida State (2nd), Karen Chung of Southern Cal (3rd) and Marijosse Navarro of Texas A&M (3rd).
Ramsey finished her freshman season ranked 27th nationally by Golfweek, seventh best among freshmen. The native of Milledgeville, Ga. announced at the end of the season that she would turn professional after she played for the United States in the Curtis Cup. She helped the USA to a team victory June 6-8.
Ramsey was the top stroke average player for the Tigers with a 72.91 figure. Her season included six top 10 finishes, including a pair of victories, a team best 13 rounds under par, 17 at par or better, and a national leading .937 figure in terms of driving the ball in the fairway.
Ramsey helped Clemson to the NCAA Tournament in the program's first year. J.T. Horton's team finished 22nd in the final Golfweek poll.
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The player controls OIO, a little wooden character, who can grow wooden beams by throwing special seeds on fertile grounds. As he wakes up in a strange universe made of wood, OIO finds that all his wooden companions are petrified.
Being left alone in this gigantic place, he will embark for a journey that will help him understand what happened to his people.
He will retrace the history of the wood civilization and how the steel changed everything in the run to more power and technology. To understand why he is now alone, OIO progress through various levels and environments.
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Monarch butterflies are migrating through the mountains on their way to Mexico for the winter, and volunteers are needed to help catch, tag and release them.
A Monarch day will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Tessentee Bottomland Preserve in Macon County. Volunteers can also help with bird banding of neo-tropical migrants, which will be conducted at the same time.
Data gathered will help shed light on butterfly and bird migrations in the Little Tennessee River migration corridor. Over 42 species of butterflies have been found at Tessentee Bottomland Preserve and 119 species of birds.
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A Bulletproof Abortion Ban?
Nebraska Lawmakers Push Constitutional Envelope With Fetal Pain Bill
OMAHA, Neb. — The rationale behind a new Nebraska abortion law is potentially precedent-setting, and pro-life leaders are already optimistic about its chances of holding up in any possible Supreme Court challenge.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed two abortion-related bills into law April 13. One requires screening of women seeking abortions. The other bans most abortions after 20 weeks because they cause pain to fetuses.
What provoked the Abortion Pain Prevention Act's introduction two months ago was the stated intention of Nebraska abortionist Leroy Carhart to step into the role of Dr. George Tiller, the late-term abortion specialist murdered last year, and serve the national market for late-term abortions from his clinic in Bellevue, Neb.
The Nebraska Legislature's speaker, Mike Flood, got the ball rolling when he learned of Carhart's plans, says Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life. Flood approached Nebraska Right to Life looking for draft legislation.
The Nebraska Catholic Conference provided Flood support for the second bill, which requires physicians to screen women seeking an abortion to help avoid any post-abortion complications — mental or physical. Both bills passed by a 44-5 margin.
But it is the 20-week fetal pain law that has broken new ground, and its drafters have done their best to prepare it for the expected challenge.
That's because a previous Nebraska effort to restrict abortion failed in the Supreme Court, partly, says Schmit-Albin, because the arguments and evidence presented in the Nebraska Legislature were deemed insufficient by the Supreme Court. "This time we made sure the legislative record was tight."
This meant lining up compelling evidence and witnesses for legislative committee hearings: On top of nine peer-reviewed studies proving fetal pain at 20 weeks, four medical specialists testified.
Among them was Dr. Tom Grissom, a clinical instructor in the pain medicine center at the Washington School of Medicine, who told legislators that "specialized nerve endings involved in pain transmission are seen as early as seven weeks and are found throughout all organs by 20 weeks gestation. The midbrain, brainstem and cortex are all present in the fetus by 20 weeks gestation. This means that all the elements for the perception of pain are present by 20 weeks gestation."
Grissom later told the Register that even at 20 weeks, "It is the general practice in the field of fetal surgery to treat the mother for pain as if we are treating the fetus. All the components are there for feeling pain, and we can quantify the physiological responses associated with pain at 20 weeks, such as the production of hormones. And shouldn't the burden of proof be on those arguing there is no fetal pain at this point rather than on those arguing there is?"
Moreover, 20 weeks is only marginally shy of viability, Dr. Sean Kenney, a Nebraska maternal-fetal specialist, told the senators. "Some 22-week babies and most 23-week babies" prematurely delivered at his hospital were considered viable and their resuscitation offered to the parents, while his hospital's neonatal life guidelines recommended "full resuscitation for all 24-week babies, unless there are previously identified conditions incompatible with life."
As well, constitutional law expert Teresa Collett, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and a declared candidate for Congress there, laid out the grounds for presenting a "case of first impression" — a new argument to the higher courts that could well make it to the Supreme Court.
Schmit-Albin says Collett's arguments were crafted with the Supreme Court, in particular with swing Justice Anthony Kennedy, in mind. In a 2007 ruling, Carhart v. Gonzalez, Kennedy provided the fifth vote upholding a federal law banning late-term abortion with language affirming the state's interest in the fetus in the last trimester.
Carhart stated in a news release that he was "extremely saddened" at the passage of the bills, which would "make it harder for patients to get an abortion when they really need them, when they are under the most desperate of circumstances… Even a woman who has been hospitalized and diagnosed suicidal or a young girl who has been raped, even raped by a close family member, would not be able to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy."
Carhart has reportedly said he might appeal, as has the Washington D.C.-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
Arguments presented by Grissom and Kenney fly in the face of existing jurisprudence, claims Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She told Associated Press that the fetal-pain law is "flatly unconstitutional. It absolutely cannot survive a challenge without a change to three decades of court rulings."
City University of New York law professor Caitlin Borgmann, who testified at the hearing for the Center for Reproductive Rights, told the Register that "science on this issue [of fetal pain] is very controversial and is greatly in dispute." Those testifying that fetal pain was present at 20 weeks "hadn't done any research themselves but were simply repeating what they had read," she said.
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Borgmann says the new fetal pain law is unconstitutional in two respects. "First, the Supreme Court has indicated that viability is the test for when states can ban abortions," she said. "This would push back several weeks from that time. Second, the Supreme Court has said the state's interest in the fetus can't outweigh the woman's right to protection for her health," by which the court means "her mental or emotional health. This bill specifically narrows the exception to the physical health of the woman."
However, Collett told the Register that while the Supreme Court has set viability as the moment at which the state can ban abortions, ""it has not prohibited the date being moved earlier. And it would not be unconstitutional to do so."
Nor has the exception been insisted on by the Supreme Court, as broadly as Borgmann and Northup insist. "The way the Supreme Court worded it in Casey v. Planned Parenthood in 1990," said Collett, "was that an exception [to the abortion ban] could be made if there were a serious risk of a substantial and irreversible impairment to a major bodily function" in the mother.
Added Collett: "It's reasonable to expect a constitutional challenge to this law, but I also think there is a very strong possibility of it surviving the challenge. And that's because the courts will see new medical evidence as to when fetuses feel pain, that wasn't available in 1990 and more so in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided."
Defenders of abortion rights also point to a statement from the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that there is no solid evidence of fetal pain at 20 weeks.
"That's based on a single study, one of whose authors runs an abortion clinic," Schmit-Albin says. "Can you believe an abortionist on the subject of fetal pain?"
The report she referred to appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2005. One author had previously been a lawyer for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, while a second was the director of a San Francisco abortion clinic.
Six states have passed laws requiring abortion providers to inform women that their fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks.
Said Schmit-Albin, "Americans aren't comfortable with the thought of babies suffering, and what with ultrasound and fetal surgery, we know what unborn babies look like at 20 weeks and that they can feel pain — which we didn't know and the judges didn't know when Roe v. Wade was decided 37 years ago."
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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When I'm not drawing comics, I'm a flying lumberjack.
When I'm not drawing comics, I'm a flying lumberjack.
HEY me too!
check out those muscles! whew!
Are those pics from that new Wolverine movie?
Keeping the world safe from savage dendriforms!
Flying lumberjacks kick major arse.
Can't tell anything about the pics! 🙂
It's pretty much the same thing though, really. Lumberjack…artist…
chopping trees is indeed an art form.
thats funny. i actually did that last week while camping.
its pretty hard. props for the flying aspect of it tho
i am sure that the super-magical-save-the-world heroe power is hidden in that blue hood. am i wrong?
that's what i guessed.
I'm in love with my state once again.
Hey Ninja Woodsman! I know you really took those photos in your studio and just put the rest together with photoshop, yes?
Talented artist? Check.
Kind of a dork? Check.
Smoking hot bod? Check.
Marry me!
I'm a little bit scared of you, Craig.
I'm guessing this means "Oregon-style" is synonymous with "shirtless-ninja-style". Which means I think everyone TOTALLY needs to start doing things in their life, Oregon-style.
Talented artist? Check.
Kind of a dork? Check.
Smoking hot bod? Check.
Marry me!
Ja ja ja, funny.
Imagine for a moment: the big final fight.
Flying lumberjack VS Chuck Norris
He's a lumberjack and he's oh, HEY!
do you ninja lumberjack around central oregon? if you'd ever like to make the trip over the mountain, i'm sure the Bend Public Library would love to have you as a speaker… drop me a line if you're interested! aprilw at dpls dot us.
Oh my heck… you're ripped!
That completely blows the image I had of you.
You're not waify and emo.
: )
what is so special about oregon that so many people living or working there are in my rss reader?
i've never been to usa so probably i cannot understand
You have such a hott bod!
You always portray yourself as a scrawny nerd.
But those are some fucking serious moves and some nice abdominal muscles.
Yeah, Craig's ink is of a wolf head with evergreen trees and a moon in the background. It's really beautiful and looks almost like a pencil drawing!
brilliant flyght! 🙂
Ohh those are some wonderful action photos! I won't say anything about your 'hot bod' cause I see other people already did so. 😛 ahahahaha
Oh, your hat is cool as well 🙂
Hot damn, we need more shirtless pics of you!
Words fail me here. Aren't you going to explain to us how your becoming a flying lumberjack happened?
And my, do you look fit 🙂 I couldn't resist saying it since, you know, everyone else did.
Can I come play too?
hahaha, what the fuck!?
Man, I'll just say what everyone else was afraid to say, I am totally masturbating right now.
The number of boys I know that like to jump really high when they're in the woods is astounding.
So let's have a chat about your bulging biceps, thank you.
@Craig: You are a complete badass.
@ahasver: No one really knows how Oregon got so cool, but there is no arguing with it. Come visit and you will understand.
haha. great!!
wowww great body, AWESOME WORK, you are and inspiration!
upps! * an inspiration.!


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Feminist Frequency continues its 'Tropes vs Women in Games' series, this time spending some time analyzing female characters who are kind of copy and paste versions of the male lead—only with added stereotypical stuff like the color pink, bows, interest in shopping, amongst other things.
Think, for example, of Ms. Pac Man. Or heck, if you want to look beyond games, think about how the story of Adam and Eve centers around the idea that Eve was made out of Adam's ribs. The video goes into much more detail about these examples, which Sarkeesian calls 'Ms. Male characters.'
Sarkeesian goes on to argue that these characterizations are limiting, because female characters then tend to be either defined by their relationship to the male lead—or worse, their only defining characteristic is that they are women in a cast that is otherwise full of men.
And as usual, while you may not always agree with Sarkeesian's ideas, they're certainly thought-provoking. If nothing else, relying less on tropes—regardless of what kind they are—can only be a good thing in my books. Hopefully the discussion here about her ideas can remain civil and not be knee-jerk reactions to the video...unlike some of the folks on YouTube:
Eventually, you'll be able to find a transcript of this video here.


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This brand new shoot interview with a true legend in pro wrestling, former NWA tag team champion...The Raging Bull Manny Fernandez! This exclusive new interview had one story after another that we have never heard before, and that's after conducting hundreds of shoots. It was incredible with road stories and backstage insider details from NWA, AWA, Florida, South West Championship wrestling. Just pure gold throughout the interview.
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I recently downloaded and installed Allegro successfully (thanks to Justin W for the installer) and I've been able to do quite a bit with it, except a lack of tutorials is limiting me. Where on earth can I see how to load a .bmp file to a bitmap? I'd also like to learn more about bitmaps, but all of the tutorials are 404s, 3d stuff, or cover them vaguely and just don't cut it.
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Keeping paperwork organized is probably the biggest headache I have as a new teacher. In talking to many other teachers, experienced and new, I know I am not alone in the deluge of paperwork. I have been working on a system of practical ways to keep things organized and have found what I think is a pretty manageable system.
Of course, everyone is different, and I am continually tweaking my own system. Maybe something that I do will be helpful to you or get you thinking about an area you need a plan for that you have not thought of already.
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That's bad. Could you capture the screen when your antivirus shows this problem and attach image in you next message ?
Remember, I need information and when further and more it's better for my understanding and then I will know what can be adjusted or improved.
I do not know what antivirus you are using. Most of it has a exception programs (when is trustly known).
ViewError has nothing harmful, so I made the sources available this application in order to be transparent to users.
You will see there is a special procedure which is essential for the operation of ViewError and this requires ADMINISTRATOR rights only at during the installation. This is because it needs to create an environment variable where keep the info where the ViewError is.
Environment variable is totally friendly and the needing to keep this info, the installation procedure writes in your REGISTRY for saving.
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